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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






2. A strong pause within a line.






3. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






4. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






5. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






6. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






7. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






8. The person who 'tells' the story.






9. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






10. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






11. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






12. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






13. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






14. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






15. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






16. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






17. Broken down acts.






18. The dictionary meaning of a word.






19. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






20. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






21. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






22. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






23. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






24. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






25. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






26. A character struggles against some outside force.






27. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






28. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






29. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






30. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






31. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






32. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






33. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






34. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






35. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






36. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






37. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






38. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






39. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






40. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






41. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






42. The selection of words in a literary work.






43. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






44. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






45. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






46. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






47. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






48. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






49. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






50. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.